As it is, I rely on hints from the DyeStat message boards, local papers with their spotty coverage, and other blog sites. But none of them makes up for not having access to the actual results.
By the way, Henry Finch and the other folks that contribute to the Newton South Running Times did their usual great job getting photos of the meet. Here's a photo from Henry showing Newton South junior Bridget Dahlberg pulling away from Emily Jones in the final straight of the girls mile. According to the DyeStat boards, Dahlberg ran 4:55 with Jones a couple of seconds back. From the picture, it also looks like a Marshfield (?) runner and Lincoln-Sudbury runner (Emily Mepham?) are on their way to excellent times, as well.
Here's another good picture of a Newton North shot putter (Ed Metallides?)... It just shows how out of touch I am that I don't know for sure...
Sure would be nice to have those results!
And while I'm whining about the hard life I lead tracking down times, let me say that I am reserving a special place in Hell for the college administrators who have chosen to host their athletic web pages on for-profit servers with countless pop-up ads and annoying audio promotions. Sorry, Noah, I hate visiting the Bluejay sports pages and I always feel like I should run an anti-virus scan after I've spent fifteen minutes looking for your results. And the video reports from Arkansas' hog-wired site? It's this kind of thing that gives bandwidth a bad name.
But back to Weston. I know it's hard work to get results out, but this is their 11th year. Wouldn't you think they'd have some sort of system by now? Or has the meet grown too popular for the "low-key" way that it's run? It just seems a shame when you go to all the trouble to assemble a meet with some of the best H.S. athletes in mass. and then can't tell the world how fast they ran, how far they threw, how long and how high they jumped.
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I think this clearly calls for one thing, get yourself a highspeed camera, a six-shooter revolver, and a monogrammed polo shirt and herald in the start of: Waldron Elite Sports Timing. And I'm only half joking, from what I hear it's a pretty lucrative field, and all you do is hang around Tackies all day!
I agree with Anonoymous. Many of us have become too dependent on getting results this way. We are at the mercy of timing companies / officials - if they have a "glitch" which is my understanding of what happened then we're out of luck. Perhaps a timing system can be part of the new 200 godzillion Newton North facility.
FYI - Alyse Rocco, Canton - Needham TC CIT - third place in girl's mile.
The NN shot putter pictured is Alex McLean who threw 46'9", his best ever.
Wow! Congratulations to Alex, and to the NN program for developing yet another terrific shot putter. (And doesn't it always seem that the shot put team has big breakthroughs at the Weston meet?)
results!!
http://www.directathletics.com/results/track/8313.html
Check out former Mass runner Arie Lambie's run at Stanford:
2 Arianna Lambie Unattached 15:22.51R
Yikes! That is Fast!
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